Today is my third year anniversary of joining lemmy. Time flies, feels like yesterday.
It’s been a good use of time - on the whole. Lemmy requires heavy curation to make the feed suitable, but once that is done its fairly breezy.
In year 1 I quickly gave up on any reasonable political discussion here. That helped alot.
I’ve grabbed coffee/lunch with three lemmies, all great people. the crazies don’t outnumber the normal people, but it feels like it sometimes. Joel noticed the same thing in hiring - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/
I’m hopeful for the future of lemmy, with the 1.0 software making some much needed community tools widely available.
Lemmy is a much smaller place then it was 3 years ago, it does give me a sense of community (even if i am neighbors with the crazies).
I’m also going three years in, although on my fourth account. Just banned from my first and only community today, it was one based on hate, though, so I must be doing something right.
I’d say there’s slightly fewer jerks on Lemmy compared to offline, and far fewer compared to Reddit.
We could use more crazies, though, they keep things interesting!